Bits and tidbits

Some notes from the arts editor's desk on this fine Monday:

• This Wednesday, Foothill College hosts a free screening of the film "Food, Inc." at noon. I can't stop giggling at this line in the press release: "Snacks will be provided." Is that wrong?
  
• Someone sent me a copy of the CD "Broadway's Carols for a Cure." I'm devastated that there is no Palo Alto angle for the cast of "Mamma Mia" singing "O Holy Night."
• After writing about the new play "Bashert!" in last week's Weekly, I took my mom to see it this weekend. We were completely charmed. Bravo to the cast and creative team, especially Palo Alto playwright Caryn Huberman Yacowitz.
• I've still got gypsy jazz music dancing in my head after catching The Hot Club of Palo Alto performing in Menlo Park yesterday. Weekly story to come soon.
  
• The chiaroscuro woodcuts currently at the Cantor Arts Center look very cool. Newsprint would not be kind to them. Sometimes I don't like newsprint.
  
• Really, if anyone should sing "Do You Hear What I Hear?", it's the cast of "American Idiot."

Pictured: The movie poster for "Food, Inc."